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When did Patti Smith Group's first album release?

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Patti Smith Group's first album Radio Ethiopia released on October 22, 1976.


Patti Smith is a poet, author and punk rock singer-songwriter. Her nickname is “Godmother of Punk” (Joan Jett has the same nickname), whereas she calls herself a “punk poet laureate”. She got famous with her song “Because the Night” which she wrote together with Bruce Springsteen for her then-boyfriend Fred to whom she got married.

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